Agnieszka Golec de Zavala works as a senior lecturer at Middlesex University in London, UK and an assistant professor at Warsaw School of Social Psychology in Poland. She received her PhD in political psychology from Institute of Psychology Polish Academy of Sciences in 1999 and MA from Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland in 1994. Her areas of interest include mechanisms of escalation and management of political conflict, terrorism as a strategy of conflict resolution, political beliefs, and development of political thinking and its limitations. She has published papers on psychological underpinnings of political conservatism and the relationship between conflict perception and choice of strategies of its resolution. She authored the book Political conflict: feeling and thinking (in Polish) and co- edited a book entitled Understanding social change: Political psychology in Poland.

She has been a member of International Society of Political Psychology since 1996 when she participated in the Summer Institute of Political Psychology at Ohio State University. In 2002 together with Professor Janusz Reykowski and Professor Daniel Bar-Tal she organized and taught at the European Summer Institute of Political Psychology. In 2004 she helped organize the ISPP Annual Meeting in Lund, Sweden.

“My goals for ISPP would concern propagating political psychology in Europe through supporting development of teaching programs; widening the awareness of political psychology’s topics and approach among students, scholars, media and political institutions; as well as attracting young scholars to the domain and developing international cooperation in teaching political psychology programs. I also think that the themes specific to problems of given continents and countries as well as cross-cultural interests should be propagated within international political psychology. I would be interested in propagation with European and Latin American themes.”